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i think that this crisis like other crises can help us focus on what's truly important for this reason. it's year 2 of the coronavirus pandemic and contact and proximity have become a rare commodity as we stay out of reach to stay safe and live at a distance claiming to know what the fuck does this have on us and on art. we took these questions to germany the us and to south africa.

a highly contagious corona virus mutation is spreading quickly in south africa the situation is tense even if the long awaited vaccines have finally arrived and the country's hard lockdown has been eased somewhat. it's kind of really bad at this point but i try to keep safe as much as i can one day is a singer in the archipelago is just 6 they have been doing what they can to stay in touch but this is the 1st time this year they are meeting to rehearse in the tough season but i got to push on the show will be fun it's crazy music 90 music is going to keep the city you know to. be in the past 5 years or so i've spent a lot of time together so we pretty much become like brothers so when we are

separated from each other for a long time you kind of feel before you. it's to connect with one another again and that in that way means it means a lot to us it kind of encourages us in the certain way i think just mentally can't even think. it's the ensemble's 10th anniversary they had planned to celebrate by giving concerts at home and abroad but right now live shows are out of the question. to you to travel restrictions to of the group 6 members couldn't even make it to the rehearsal. the hardest part for us i think artists in general groener them to be in. because we need to have people you know filled up in a room like. it's one that we have here so we haven't been able to work

consistently. and the government as far as i know has hoped if you artists. i have. applied for social grants as well applied as they had some before. you know we haven't gotten anything yet this is affecting us there we've very much financially both as a group and as individually. a look back at better days the same place in 2019 just 6 were performing as part of deutsche and ellis campus project which promotes cooperation between young musicians from around the world acapella group c.l.a from lives he sang with the guys from johannesburg. this was a very special collaboration mostly because we're bringing together 2 different type of cultures to different types of styles of a capella sing they developed

a repertoire together 1st in south africa and later in germany. it was a great exchange in hearing what they do and then very what you do and i asked trying to put that together. be able to create something which for me sounded new. just like giving birth to. a whole new brand new born baby the project culminated in a performance at the beethoven fest in bonn together with the national youth orchestra of germany. i. we were even having plans of saying they're going to 20 probably we can meet again and do another tour somewhere else in the 2020 why and because that's what it looked like and then in 2020 covert 1000 happened in the end everything just went. since

then just 6 have been restricted to posting online don't you think we remind. people too much you. know. everybody. sitting. and not being able to sing anymore it does affect you in a way because this is something you did every day this is something that's a calling and it's something that gives you life not being able to go on stages and also meeting people and just having a good time with people it really does affect your psychologically. in a negative way. to feel more alive when singing.

2020 in just 6 packs their mix of african beats and western pop into a christmas album for the 1st time it was a hit but then came the hard lockdown and the group had to take a break. since the corona crisis began the seniors have all had to find side jobs. sublets a place in a peaceful part of pretoria he used to earn most of his income performing now he gives online piano lessons to get by. nice one see. me. he and his fellow sing is a making sacrifices to keep pursuing their musical dreams and. we you know each person now is you know going to get into their savings and kind of

depleting everything that they had even saved up so it's quite challenging talking singing and laughing together helps me. i'm going to. write a new song corona road a good. girl roanoke. a couple of weeks ago i suffered from cold did and it affected me you know mentally and physically i'm just grateful that i'm still here i can still sing in future when things open up. for a full. 6 life is still far from normal in many parts of the world including in germany how can

you deal with this pandemic which chips away at closeness and keeps arts and culture under lockdown how can we cope with all the uncertainty we ask to send your flask at. chief of the german monthly fellows a few magazine we 1st spoke to her one year ago just after the pandemic outbreak. this is the 1st time we're experiencing a global public health crisis and although there are vaccines now we have no idea what the future holds how can we cope with this state of permanent uncertainty in. this truly is a situation we have not experienced before. it's a time of uncertainty and as we as society are used to being in control to making projections and calculating risks this is an extreme challenge for us. and.

we need a perspective a light at the end of the tunnel. but for now that's still not in sight which is why we keep returning to the question of whether we are dealing with this crisis in the right way and for how much longer we can cope with us as we. take. the covered nor the cold in 1000 pandemic affects us all that some are hit harder than others what role does solidarity play in these times. solidarity is the key word it's very very important in this crisis although sometimes i feel the full complexity of what that means is overlooked people say things like we need to show solidarity with at risk groups we cannot let people die and that's obviously true nobody would question that but i also have solidarity towards children who need to build a future and get an education. not to mention the children and families where there is domestic abuse. like. if support within society

starts fading we'll need to ask ourselves how many deaths we are prepared to accept so that public life can return to normal. as i can cull through this is a highly contentious. troubling question. but we shouldn't be afraid of it. for your 1st. visit toward you say death is present but at the same time death is taking place at a distance we're not allowed to visit hospitalized relatives meaning were robbed of an aspect of our culture and of collective mourning their photo on yes. yes that is almost impossible to bear imagine going to a funeral of someone you loved and not being allowed to hug those you are closest to and that's inhumane. on the other hand and that's the conflict we are facing at the moment we understand that we must protect each other from each other. if i

think we will only be able to maintain the current approach for a very limited time until we start risking the future of our economy and that of our children and teenagers complex of spirit so that some independent a new term has emerged in this pandemic the notion of being systematically important what does this signal to those who are not considered essential like artists. and i think the arts provide an opportunity to experience yourself in an entirely different way. they can move something in us and that it's not about efficiency having a clear her presence or generating profit. with a good singing the cultural sector film all of this is in a sense of prefers they are not essential to keeping my body alive. but it is precisely for this reason that this sector is systemically important.

only the arts can provide us with this type of experience this movement within us this reciprocity with the world and we need that in a way we needed to live and to survive. it just is there a silver lining to this pandemic for you personally or for us all. i think we ultimately always learn from crisis. extreme situations give us a clearer view of what really matters in life to help you focus and hone in on what's important. at the same time we should not make the mistake of artificially projecting meaning on to everything including grim situations. some things are simply horrific and they still happen and we're just glad when they're over. strike . with respect to what we're living through right now i see both of those things happening. by the oh here it's my pick of us with regard to.

the coronavirus pandemic has thrown us for a loop and it is a very real threat many of us feel like we are trapped in a bubble of the artist flaw the un maina captured this feeling in his photo project social distance stacks in it everyone is in their own plastic bubble together and yet isolated it's a visual metaphor of this time and it begs the question can we ever truly connect with another without real closeness. when our existence in this world begins with this it allows us to perceive the outside world and others it's direct and void of filters or prejudices

our sense of touch. but right now touch has become taboo as we and others are a potential danger getting close i mean 6 feet apart how does this lack of touch impact us. it's a question these 3. people know something about director of fog. art historian merely i'm no i my staff and. professor of human have to as a risk it kind of just to there's no such thing as virtual closeness that's an oxymoron our species only experiences closeness to another human being through some sort of physicality. and soon. touch is our very 1st sense. we feel long before we can smell taste

hear or see. from a very young age we discover the world largely through touch experiencing both its pleasant and painful sides. whether comforting or destructive every touch tells a story. because the very important aspect of love but there is also aggression and violence which can be conveyed through gestures and touch you can also show power structures or religious feelings he was a unified and childish. and physical contact can also be reckless and not just in painting. during a pandemic thoughtless touching is the biggest and while social distancing is a virtue but what are we giving up. the walls and showing off touch is an important confirmation that i exist ficus of the subjects to you that you feel

your own self through someone else's touch for did you notice that before covered 19 you could often use physical contact to solve problems or reduce tensions by hugging one another in such. a 100 qantas once an awkward or modest spot on all fours and climbed to the touch is the name of this does theatre piece. which premiered in 2020 at the munich can i should be. it depicts a dystopia where touching is prohibited and where the dark effects of isolation i visible to the lot of you people are definitely becoming more restless dissatisfied and frightened. and i feel like suicidal tensions are on the rise as some people are going a bit crazy and following conspiracy theories. so i do feel as if there's a higher level of madness right now and that we're not grounded. ski added.

it's ironic that the more we socially distance to keep safe the more insecure we feel. staying apart is the opposite to how we normally august when we are afraid any comfort. or not these are but we were having to navigate this overall difficult situation we are in without being allowed to touch others leads to more feelings of fear and uncertainty and since negative feelings about yourself we are less afraid when we have physical contact. the pandemic of the last to have done what you think is the appropriate closeness to our viewers have shifted before our. social shakes . take how people used to pack into shakespeare's globe theater. so. they would your innate spirits and eat all together in the same room. when we read about that we think how on earth with

a so on hygiene this kind of sign but into war 5 years we may look back and think how could people have stood so close to one another at concerts and with strangers without any contact tracing. back to contacts or god is now for me just a matter. whether it's a hug. a pat on the back or just a comforting closeness touch helps us knowledge stress alleviate fear and diffuse conflicts. words alone cannot substitute this business communication. no script it is a new stick and. there are those funny just as with your elbow or your foot couple come when the cuts so people are trying to meet their needs for physical communication. or trying to establish contact and promote a feeling of closeness through symbolic gestures. 2 fold on.

we see better when we have time. and by feeling another. you feel yourself to. these are hard and heartbreaking times throughout the world in the u.s. coronavirus is rampant california has seen more because of cases and more covert related deaths than any other us stay. here to the pace of vaccinations has been painfully slow bestselling author t.c. boyle is among the lucky ones he's had his shot still he longs for the pandemic to end. terror at all times not only in a culture that's been afflicted but this biological terror. i am of the age group who is vulnerable and i would further of all are all because of. now i haven't gone

anywhere or done anything. since this began within the last 10 months. time in want to see tone is nestled between the sentence inas mountains and the pacific ocean. and as a writer he's used to working at hahn in self-imposed lockdown. you know all writers. there are able people and misanthropic people as well and i'm one of them yeah we don't want to be bothered by anybody or anything we want to live in our minds however this is another side to lush and that's a social side which i really enjoy going to my village i live in a little village i know everybody part of my life is social and being with all of those people in the village. that has been somewhat difficult. has written over 2 dozen novels and collections of short stories we did one for the

pandemic he'd currently being germany promoting his latest book talk to me the novel recounts in part the true story of an experiment conducted in the 1970 s. which turned a chimpanzee into a celebrity. american researches brought the chimp to move in a private household when it was a baby they wanted to see whether he would be able to learn a language and express itself through sign language the experiment was a failure decades later nim chimpsky is tragic fate would become the subject of a documentary. t.c. boyle has often written about the life and work of scientists and their sometimes unsettling experiments. boyle says he was fascinated by name chimpsky story because the experiment was an attempt to discover what differentiates humans from other animals. how do you know who you are will you have language and you can talk well the deaf language is different it's

a gestural language how does that work but yes i did all the went back to those days and all 'd the research seventy's and eighty's the cross for string benji's in human households race and just as you raise your own child to see how language is developed in us but also how it is generally developed it's just really fascinating we work in words we are words where they come from why are we different from today's perspective some past experiments seem on but boil says that's no reason to mistrust science especially in the corona era. of usually in the absence of religion in this mysterious world science has become a religion. i can only subscribe to what my 5 senses deliver to me. there may be a mystical row. but i don't know about it. as far as science is concerned i think

we must absolutely respect for it yet coronaviruses it often left even the scientists stunt so what can we do to prevent future pandemics distin see boyle have an answer. the microbes rule they rule us you know look at this and demick now look at how the virus now since we've taken precautions and wearing masks and so on has mutated to become much easily much more transmissible much easily already it's done that so what do we learn from this we are all want we are all one as an animal species and we are extremely permissive us in terms of our international travel. and there is no stopping the microbes they will take advantage of this they have. when the next one comes we hope to be more prepared that's all. we seem even less

prepared to combat climate change only has to look at his front door to see the consequences in recent years month to see joe has been hit by mudslides and wildfires his next book will revolve around climate change does he think a book can save the world it might save the world if people knew how to read unfortunately most people don't even know how to read and the habit of reading. literature 'd like many great writers produce. is no longer of the essential source it requires a one on one relationship between the writer and the reader so whether literature exists in the future or now. it has no bearing on what i do i have just feel so fortunate to be able to do exactly what i want each day as an artist t.c. boyle may be a pessimist but he still has lots of great stories to tell and millions of fans

worldwide who will wait to read them. to the coronavirus pandemic has made living harder but art can provide some much needed consolation take care. and see you next time. 2.

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